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A WOMA]
When pa csme horme the other nigh
Anfl si:l to ma that we would so
Becaue a man had been around th;
just a. a favor. on a thing that eou
*H&i let me have the stot.k." says
I [:! subscribe to-niorrow, ior ther
"He'll et u; in at fifty cents for ei
S-av. pa. whie ma she didn't seem t<
"Andi in six weeks from now. if we
We'll get ten dollars for each shar
I've seen his papers and they're scra
Say; what's the trouble with you. mi
"If it's as good as that," says ma. "
What makes him want to let it go.
To get the roney, but I'd feel as tl
To voi him. as we would if we si
'(onfound a woman. anyway," says
To want to wake a person wben he
LA ME CHARL
By Franklin I
CA R ou: rauch on Black Rock
Creek !!ves Lame Charlie. who
is a .w)ifer." That is. he finds
employment in assisting stock
men of North Wyoming to rid this re
gion of destructive and increasing
pests. He was for fifty years a "free
trapper.2 and is now a little wizened
man of seventy. More than twenty
years ago a veigeful Ute lodged an ar
row point ird-er one of his knee caps,
and hence the' old man goes with a
lane leg.
He very relintantly narrates his own
adventu-es, although he has passed
through dangers without number. Only
a few accounts of his narrow escapes
bave been drawn from him.
One narrative is of a "tole wolf."
which led him into ditliculties amnong.
bostile Assiniboins. A "tole" in Lame
Charlie's catego-y of mysteries is sin
ply some natural bird or beast played
upon oy superhuman powers or by the
magic of met'icine men.
One winter back in the fifties he
3ved near Black Kettle's village of Cut
Head Sioux on the north shore of 3in
ui Wakan Lake. He was roused one
evening by the fierce howling of a wolf
within a few rods of his cabin door.
He went outside with his gun, and imi
-mediately saw a wolf, as he believed
:a big blark one-sitting upon a snow
-drift. Lame Charlie fired. and the
-creature yelped and ran. T'e trapper
-was filled with excitement.
The black wolf 's not often killed or
even seen. Only the year before Mc
Kenzie, at Fort Union. had paid Au
.gust Lariviere $100 for a single skin,
.4nd had offered $150 for a tbate to it.
4One hundred and ifty dollars: Lame
-Ch-1ie swiftly donned his cowskin
,coat, his Cut Head overshoes and rack
ets and gave chase.
There was more than a foot of new
snow, covered with a crust, upon
which had fallen the rime and frost of
-several still, cold days. Lame Charlie
'had once rr-n down a silver gray fox
-upon just that kind of snow. He be
Aieved that he had hit the wolf and
sould soon overtake it. The tracks
-were Easily followed; the animal was
:ennaming at a shuffling lopc.
.Although he could find no blood
spots upon the snow the trapper was:
laz nowise discouraged. He had more
than once shot a gray wolf or a deer]
through ham "r flank, and had had to
dunt diligently for his bullet hole when
the game was finally sec'ured.
'.The pight was very c'ld, but the airj
*ws s-t11 infibracing,' and Lame Char
Se enjoyed his c:ease. Af ter an hour
af stiE running he was rewarded with
a sight of the beast loping a hundred
jards or so in front of him. Hie now)
felt sure of tre black wolf's pelt. 1
He fl-ed a random shot, and the crea
- $EoThinrease its lead percepti
. a y. On they sped, hunter and hunted.
n.other hour passed, and still the fiit
so bobbing black speek kept its dis
'anne Close t, the edge of indefinite
-gs. The trapper "took up a hole"
* ~ r, his 'aelt.
On they fled, man and beast, over
hilly strips of land, across broad
stretches of prairie, the hunter as tire
less as his quarry. Three times the
trapper tightened his belt, each time
sure that another determined spurt
would bring him within shooting
zange. If the animal were not hurt,
he reasoned. it would long since have
a 2o far tehind.
- t last the beast led him down into
a deep, bushy creek known as Bad
Loulee. Then Lame Charlie knew that
hi chase had stretched across twenty
.miles of crust. Still the hunter was
* not discouraged. He shufied on over
the rough ground, now and then jerk
ing his rifle to his face, only to see the
twolf disappeat over the creek bank or
t~ehind a cilump) of wilo"s- Several
deer were startied from their beds.
and ciattered away upon the snow
Thbe aimalu he was chasing tookt to
-re high land. ran atcross a promontory
and pluuged again down a steep grade
into .the coulee. After it went the
Lrapper. Squatting upon his rackets.
with a whoop of victory. lie shot down
the long. steep slope as swiftly as the
duck fies. Hie would quickly have
overtakmn his gua~rry, toco. bu: the eun
ninit brute suddenly shied and fled at
~right ~angies n!a'ng the steep.
Turning to fire a shot as he passent
L~uue Chatrlie twit;wd. his gun xld
ed in mid air, and lie tumbled, rolled
2ad slid to ti:e foot of the bluff'.
He iantied in a thick cluster of wil
* lows upon the creek bank, and when
be had exti--s ted his rackets and tum
bied out of tue thicket it was to find
haim~wef facmng a row of Indlian teepees
upa a sheltered flat. Dogs began
b-arkinlg. and ':umedia-tely iumates or
.tte lodges. rous'd hy hii: rifle shot.
;tegau to appear upon the creel: bank
~poosite.
'Th.e mioo, had r;*en, aend statiding
upon the iceC wjthin a few rods of
Cihen Ciiu-::e :r- a t -a !t-nce thi::
these Iidians wem' tuita:uIus. Must
,;Mie. Hei was a a adopted 2mmber
,of B3iaet Kettle's hand of Cut Heads.
.*invreterate foes of a:1 Ar~sn~boirs. If
these Indians were n:ade aware of that
fatt Black Kettle's camp wou!d speed
AS' Jose a raiuable' ally.
T~e was too tLeed. however, to risk
taking to his heels, and so. when an
0:diani hailed him he awwered. "How:
i13w7" and went boldly forward.
A, group of blauketed fignrei quickly
otihered roua2. him. Mt Irdian spoke
. ...~ ...n lnhb-ski';- wherce h?
VS WAY.
he had a happy smile.
> be livin' in great style,
Lt day to let him in,
fdn't ail to win.
pa. "at fifty cents a share
!s little left to spare.
'ery share we buy,"
hardly bat a.- eye; t
ve a mind to let it -o, i
!-that's estimated low- t
ight; there ain't a chance to lose
? You don't seem to enthuse."
[ can't quite understand
Of course it would be arand
tough it wasn't fair
tould take a single share."
pa. "she always seems
s having pleasant dreams.'
-Chicago Record-Herald.
t
IE'S "TOLE."
Velles Calkins.
had come. The trapper iup ed that he
had chased a wolf. which had led him
far from his camp and immediately re
lated the incident of his tumbling down
the bluff. In order to divert the sav
age's mind from further inquiry' Lame t
Charlie gave his adventure a humor
ous turn, describing minutely and with (
many gestures, 'he somersaults he had t
taken.
Those who were able to understand
laughed with him and in turn repeated
his story to their fellows. At the end 1
a tall, muffled figure turned from the i
g-oup and bade the hunter follow. A
mcment later Lame Charlie entered a
tezpee and seated himsclf before a
heap o: live embers. The tall Indian, 1
still mufflsM in -,:s blanket. threw fresh
sticks upon the firennd blew the coals
to a blaze. Then he -"novered his
black pall ard squatted upon the
ground, confionting his -uest. To his
dismay *_me Charlie foun' himself
face to face with Gaucher, the most
villaincus and widely known rascal of
all the Assininoin tril-es.
t
Traders, trappers, voyageurs and va
rious iribas of aavages knew him nu
der many titles-Left Yand, Knuife
Holder, BigN Medicine. Poisoner, the
Kid, Bear Leader and "The Napoleon
of the Prairie." None knew any good
of him. '.ihc man was' f nmeuter of
difliculties, a secret and treacherous
foe, a poisoner and deviser of inhuman
cruelty to hapless captives. By the t
members cf his own band he was held e
in superstitious dread.
Lame Charlie gave himself up for c
lost, for the cruel chief knew him per- D
sonally. One glance into the evil. shift
ing eyes of Gaucher convinced the
L n
helpless trapper that his hours were to
numbered. Ha'd his gun been loaded
he would have discharged it at the
chief instantly. But the weapon was t<
useless, and outside he heard the
muffled crunching of moccasined feet. r
The teepee was surrounded.
There was "medicine" in all .this. so i
the trapper believed. The black wolf
bad been a tole of Gaucher. Truly,
the man was powerful in his medicine
yhus reasoned Lame Charlie, and with
the stoicism of an Indian captive he
;ank upon an elbow and awaited his
rate.
Gaucher very deliberately filled and
ighted a long stemmed pipe, and
smoked in silence for a time, appar- tl
mtly devising some cruelty which
hould sustain his evil reputation. At
ast. moved, as it appeared, by angrya
utterings outside his teepee, the chief
snocked the ashes from his pipe bowln
nd spoke.e
"You come from Black Ke'ttle's vil-a
age." said he. "I will send you back
0 him. But first give me your rifle
o that I may know you will not fire
>ack at us."'
At this instant several of his bucks
:rowded in at the entrance of the tee
ee. Seeing there was no alternative ?
[4ame Charlie surrendered his useless
un. Then, at a word of command,
several Indians laid hands upon the 0
r
trapper and stripped him of his cow
kin coat and two blue woolen shirts.
Why the savages left him his leg
gings, moccasins and his old skin cap
Lame Charlie does not know, but
doubtless it was from refinement of
cruelty. Gaucher, secure in the belief
that his victim must perish in the bit
ter cold, wished to prolong his misery,
tc- the last extremity. c
The trapper was thrust half naked -
into the night and bidden to make his b
way homeward. As they shoved hiim if
out of the teepee, the Indians laughed c
immoderately at Gaucher's new freak
of cruelty.
Keenly the trapper regretted that he f
had not clubbed his gun and striven to f
sell his life at some cost to these mis- I
creants. As it was there seemed noth-d
ing to do but to run tintil he should
flI, freezing and exhausted. Notwithi- t
standing his recent long run he fled f
from the hooting, taunting Assiniboinsi
at the top of his speed. The bitter<
night air cut him to the boae, and life
lay in vigorous action.
He k-new well that he could not in
any event have tinished a run back to
his cabin-'much less could he do so in
his present plight. He determined to
run as long as he could witho-it frecz
ing. then to remove his outer leggings,
wrap his body as best he might and
crawl lnto a drift, there to la until he
should either recover strength or die.
In this one desperate expedient lay.
his only chance of life. That he might
icrease that slender chan-e he kept.
to the bottom of the coulee. where no
air was stirring and where the drifts
were deep. For many miles the coulee
led toward Miuni Wakan Lak,
To check the action of frost he used
his rough skin cap, chafing his body
as he rau. At first it seemed that he
must freeze th -ough and through at
once.
But as he exerted himself reaction
came, and he felt a stran!'e, tingling
cr~hilrtion. an airy lightness of body
which ena'oled him to speed over the
snow crust, going in long, lithe jumps
like a jack rat bit.
As he bounded forward at the dis
tance of a mile or more from the As
siniboin village, he saw over his shoul
der a creature running at his heels.
The black wolf again! He believed
the animal was about to leap upon him
and. drew his one weapon which the
Assiniboins ha d overlooked - a razor
edged pocket dirk.
As he turned to fight, however, the
trapper found himmelf facing a brini
'died oro ordinary sine and certainly
neek appearance. Tr.e animal fell
pon the snow at a few yards' distance
nd whined pitifully. wriggling toward
im as a bashful puppy does toward a
isitor.
Greatly rejoiced the trapper called
he dog to him and took it in his arms.
L'he creature was scrawny enough, but
here was warmth in its body and in
ts thick, shaggy coat. It would cer
ainly help him to save life in a drift.
le actually carried the animal as he
'an. deriving grateful warmth from
ts body. This he did until several deer
umped from their beds among corn
talk grass the dog leaped suddenly
way to give chase.
Bad Coulee, with its shelter of bush
tnd tall grass, was the night resort of
umerous bards of deer and elk.
Lame Charlie stopped to call back
he dog, but finding himself freezing
o the marrow presently sped on. Af
er a time the dog overtook him, and
gain loped at his heels, but the man
vas now too much exhausted to carry
L burden.
Again a band of deer jumped in front
d him, this time out of a thicket of
ow willows. There were a dozen or
nore, and they scampered in all direc
ions. A buck and a large. fat doe. in
Attempting to leap the creek channel.
)roke through the crust of a deep drift.
Lnd before the doe could extricate her
elf the dog was upon her, with its
eeth in her throat.
With a stroke from his knife Lame
4harlie killed her. Then with chat
ering teeth, crackling skin and freez
ng fingers lie Lell to work.
He peeled the deer's skin from its
houlders, skinned the hind legs whole,
urned the pelt inside out, drew on his
mpirovised coat and belted it tightly
bout the waist. Then be sat down to
augh at recent peril and to make a
neal of leaf suet, while the dog also
telped itself.
Lame Charlie did not laugh long.
kowever, for the pain of frost bites set
ing in nearly drove him to distraction,
itil he had rubbed his hurts thorough
y with deer's tallow.
With his dog companion he reached
is cabin late in the morning. His
trongs were quickly told in Black Ket
le's village, and that chief, delighted
a know the arch enemy was so near,
mediately set out to surprise the
amp. But the wily Assiniboins were
n the march, and being only a hunt
ag party, without squaws or children,
asily made their escape.
To this day Lame Charlie is not
-holly convinced that the black wolf
nd dark, brindled dog were one and
be same creature. He admits, how
ver, that this might have been the
ase; that a dog might have been sto
m from one of the Red River posts,
ight have been driven out of the In
jan village by their freakish curs, and
ight have been hunting a new mas
r. Such a dog would have run from
im and toward the Indian village so
mg as he carried a gun and continued
shoot at it.
And the fact that Lame Charlie ad
its this ::s a possible :olution of his
erilous adventure is really pr~oof that
is so.-Youth's Ccmpanin.
Germany's shipments of ceme.t to
us country are dwindling noticeably.
his country has cement of its own to
31 nowadays. Last year it shuipped
broad 1,067,000 barrels of cement,
alued at $1,484,000. "Up to 1S897,." re
arks Consul Harris (Mannheim),.'-the
port trade in American cemen't
nounted to practically nothing."'
The director of the B&eslau Hygieni'
astitute has announced the resui.t of
is mosquito war experiments. The
rst object was to destroy egg-bea-ring
males,. which were found in large
umbers in Breslau cellars. Fumiga
on was used, and the number falling
the papers placed on the floors, often
an u to over 2000. mosquitoes-. For
estroying the larvae in pools of water
fty grains of "larvicide" was peut into
cubie metre of water and poured into
be pool. This kills all the lanrvae
ithin half an hour, but does. no~t harm
rogs and fish.
Malt is practically but another ferm
f glucose. In the form of diabetes
ue to disease of the pancreas, the
ighest authorities advise the admin
tration of glucose for amelioration
f disease. Glucose may be justly
alled pre-digested starch, since in it
s starch in the exact condition that we
Lnd prepared by the digestive organs
or assimilation. Further, glucose is
ire-eminently a fat-formning, heat-pro
ucing food. Under a diet of glucose
nan can perform more muscular work
han under any other single article of
ood. Lastly, glucose not only is not
jurious, but it is an essential article
f food, without which, in some form,
nan cannot enjoy li'fe.
The motor car of a Paris firm is de
;igned to light the country residence of
ts owner or do other work in its hours
f rest from travel. The car is i
novably braked on two fixed rails
>laced in the auto house, the detach
ble crank provided is removed from
he two-ylinder gasoline motor, and
y means of a shaft with two universal
joints the motor is connected with the
lynamo or other machine to be driven.
While this arrangement promises to
be especially useful for furnishing elec
tric light away from the usual power
stations, ~it may prove a great con
enience for driving pumps, wood saws
or other domestic apparatus./
According to an official of the Bo
tanic Gardens at Washington there
are in New Zealand no less than 500
species of plants that have been intro
duced and acclimated since the colo
nization of the islands. T1he presence
I these plants there is described, di
rectly or indirectly, to the presence of
civilized men. They have followed
him, and, 'curiously enough, have
driven before them some of the plants
indigenous to the soil. Most of the
invaders are small species, yet they
have prevailed over large and vigorous
native species. Man is a conqueror,
and plants and animals which are able
to thrive in his presence, and under
the conditions that he creates, are
oerrunning the world in the wake Qf
amp,
Asphalt For Country Highways.
EPORTS from various county
engineers regarding the cost of
maintenance of improved high
ways have drawn considerable
.ttention to that highly important
phase of the road question and are
bringing to the front many hitherto
unconsidered or not carefully consid
ered features. According to these re
ports, New York's $50.000,000. if used
directly for building roads according to
present methods, will involve an enor
mous annual expense for repairs, and
not only road builders but the people
who pay the bills are beginning to ask
if. after all, the macadam system is the
best, when first cost, expense of annual
maintenance and durability are con
sidered.
Simple arithmetic shows that a sub
titute for macadam which might cost
more in the first instance and show a
reat saving in co.st of maintenance
would in a period of ten years prove a
profitable investnent. County En
gincer McClintork. or Monroe. is au
thority for the statement that the es
timated cost of a mile for the main
tenance of New York State roads for
the current year is ':310, and that the
8S.77 miles of macadii road in his
ounty have cost '71;. 10.90, or $S114
a mile. In 1905 they cost S175 a mile
Cor repairs, and an inspection last April
showed that $60.000 vould be needed
to put them in first class condition, or
nearly $700 a mile.
New York has followed the lead of
assachitsetts. Connecticut and New
Jesey in the matter of road building,
and it might be wisdom to follow the
last named State in its experiments
%th asphalt as a cheap and lasting
surface for country highways. Of
ourse. it would be necessary to give
the subject careful study in order to
avoid the errors which have made
many of our city streets anything but
a joy to ride upon. but the fact that a
high grade natural asphalt. which does
not comtaia the soluble salts so detri
mental to the waterproof qualities es
sential to a good pavement, can be
mixed with trap rock particles of the
size now used in ordinary macadam
and laid at a rate sufficiently low to
warranc consideration is regarded by
many as calling for an open minded
discussion of its possibilities.
Professor A. W. Dow, Government
aspector of asphalts and cements at
Washington, is quoted as saying that
no pavement laid in the District of.
Colum*bia with natural asphalt has
ever rotted. John C. Trautwine. for
meriy engineer of the Philadelphia
Water Department, says that the same
material used eight years ago, for res
rvoir liaing has shown no signs of
t~eteriration, and in Rochester it has
ost 1.es than two cents a aqrmm yard
to mantain an asphalt pavement for
seventen years after the expiration of
the guarantee term.
As water is the chief enemy- -if the
ountry roads and the cry of the- road
builders- is~ -drainage. drainage-,. and
then more- d.rainage," to insure- keep
ing them: in good condition, it w-ould
seem that even if the first cost fs- the
same the' lessened expense of. main
tenance met be a susiicienlt. reason
for considerig the claims of: some
other materiMl than the present eostly
and shortlived maendiam for~ building
the State's highways.-New Yok..Trih
Proposed Fine Drivewa.
The movement looking to the con
truction of a through turnpike from
A~ugusta, Ga..,. to Savannah,. is mee-t
ng the same' enthusiastic recepltiou' i
Augusta tim't it received at the otffer
end of the line. ~Dr. W. C.. Lyle, Pres-i
dent of the- Augusta Automobile C~nub,
says the- local organization is and. has.
been for- some time past heartii.g in
favor of the construction of su.ch- a.
thoroughfare. and at present staniis
ready to~ aid the project ia every possa
le way. Dr. Lyle s.tates that the
novente.t. as he understamnds ist,. wmi.1
povi.le that the roadway building and
repairing in each respective countF
alon the line is to be dlone by the
iop-le of that county. He states. that
the roads in Richmond County are no
in such a state that little or no change
ilt have to be made: thait they are
-ll to the good" just as thmey stand
Dr. Lyle expresses the hope that
members of the Savanmnah club, will
ieyle shortly to mak.e an inspection
tour straight throuigh to Aug~ustat. anid
eextends to th'm 0:1 hehalf of the
Augusta AutoImobiin Cluei the promise
o a right royal welcome aud the best
Atnx Armes.
FirSt Po:-ition: Nobody wishes
Scond Position: Certain politi
cians, in order to provide the occa
sion for diplomatic negotiation. since
they are nothing if nt. in the~ public
eye, cast a quantiiy of dust in the e.ir,
join with th~e politicians of some
other r.ation who are in a ilke fix,
and arrange a conf:;rncel of all the
- hird Fosidenf: The conferece
waps itself in mystery and throws
ou dark hints about national honor;
the newspapers emit hot .air; the un
feathered geeso who abound in all
wlks of lif2 get to cackling; who
ever ventures to ask what it is all
about get-s Uimsel[ denounced as a
copperhead: an:d a war sentimenL is
engendered.*
Fourth Position: The world is on
fir, until ther:: is glory enough for
ifth Position: Taxes: more
taxes; peace with honor, and still
taxs.-Life
A Que.ion.
f a plaid-clad caddy kaddie's daddy
had a fad for adding. would the
plid-clad caddy laddie's daddy be an
adder? And if the plaid-clad caddy
laddie addled daddy in his adding,
vwold the plaid-clad caddy laddie's
dddy make the plaid-clad caddy,
lddie sadder?--Harper's Magazine.
Since the Suez: canal was opened
its an':al revenue has increasedJ
f..-e no On.Y tm $20.'00.000.
CZAR TAKS HIS STAND
Troops Are Being Massed at Great
Centers-Revolutionists Are Also
Prepared For Emergency.
St. Petershrg. By Cable.-An
imperial ukase has been promulgat
ed dissolving parliament and fixing
the time for the convocation of the
newly elet1ed assembly as March 5,
1907.
A seconl iikase plaes St. Peters
burg in a tate or extraordinary se
curitv by the declaration of a minor
forn of martia! law.
A large part of the province of
Kiev. where armed uprisings are an
ticipated in consequence of the disso
ition of pa rliament. has been plac
2d under mania!I law. The conditions
for the new elections will be publish
ed later.
-li eiperor. diseouraged by his
failure I-, tofrm a coalition Ministry
and the distinetly revolutionary -paths
which parliament has chosen, has ap
parentl lieen persuaded to risk a
Snal appeal frem parliament to the
people. or in other words, to dissolve
palimnent aId order new elections
I he basis qf universal suftrage.
Thursday the imperial ukase cans
ing the dissolution of parliamic was
signed. and was enforced Fridav at a
final. momentous conference on the
subject held at Peterhof. Exactly
who was present cannot be learned,
but it is understood that the grand
dukes. (en. Trepoff and other officials
and one or two ministers were at the
pal cc.
Ei idently the government is not
bl.nd to the fact that the dissolution
of parliament will be accompanied by
tremendous excitement, riots and
bloodshed, if nothing worse. Troops
are being massed at St, Petersburg.
Moscow and other certres, prepared
to apply physical force and in addi
tion to the guard regirents. which
were hityrriedly mareh'.1 iinto the capi
tal Thursday night. the entire Twer
ty-third division of infantry arrived
here Satnrday from Pskov. This
imposing mifitury array is: expected
to overawe the masses. The Social
ists and the Group of Toil in parlia
ment havc prepa-md for an emergen
ey. They drafted an address for is
,uaiice to she ceuntry the moment the
i1ssolution- wa3 elared.
Bl~c~dshedi on a- fare seafe- with a
ritaoship- in- the- baekzround is: con
sier-ld to- be the inevitable seqttel of
tdisgrmion of parrliament, but the
supporters "4 a dissotution cla-im that
the emperor must tmrke the risk. ar
znimrr that atew elections may give
difece'nt reaf'rts. and, in may e'ient.
th-it it is ben!er to fight than- to- ab
jectly - urr'erder to tl1' rev'oiutionlary
pr!h mcent..
Mer.. Ye'ru.fet*. forr:er minister of
aarT:uI nre an.1 leire'r of the Conl
sc r'virive C'enii{its in :de lower house.
who several' weeks ago vainlv triedl
o form a coaflition mi'nistry, in con
verstioni wirithehi corre'spontdet of
the Associated Press de'laredf tha-t the
sit urtion was exterme-fy- critiea. lie
was without hope that mt conIflict could
be:roid-ed
he said'. "'a it impost)i'~l) for
ai . nan- te, nri'eit tie c'ourtse of in
C vens it 1 f'eet sate in- pred(ie
ing two' th~rngs: ti'r.t tlrt Russia
will come to a conlsit iutiomd basis-:
-ecod. tha9t t.here will be no( gret
Memphis Cotton Firm Suspends.
Memphis. S pecimaL-Thte an noun'e
ment is madec that Armstrong & Coyn
pany commnissiont brokers, has strs
pended oper'atious. It is said the. ear
respnrdents of the tirm demanded
margins of ec4ton futures which
otrdd not be covered. A member of
le tirni said the sus~pensibon is only
Georgia Bar Asociation Elects Presi
dent.
Warm Sprinns, (Gn.. Speial.-The
Georgia Bar Association riosed its
annual g'athe'ring~ by electing .Judge
A. L. \liller'. 'f 31aeon. presidenit.
The v'ice prea.dints chtseni were: T
3. Cunin itham. Savannah:l S. P. Gif
het. ( olumbi's: E.> P.. 8. Denmark.
Yeldosta: W. A. WVimbiish. A\tlanta.
PI of 0 Ma(eOn. w:~':s doqt ed seeiret!ary
and Z. 1D. H~arri-'n, ci Atlinta. tras
Wheaat Crop Elstimate.
Chicago. Special.-The daily t r'ade
bullet in issued t he annual est ima t t
of thle wheat crop makingr a total
y'ield of 720.000.000. Including the~
suppl ies carried 'oi-erl ' thle total sup
ply for the year' is 2] .000.000 bush
eis. 'JThe esitmated con'2sumpti'ton is
45.000.000. hushe!s. The i-zregat
of t he world's eropj i< 80.000.00Jt
bushels less thaan last year.
Knoxville. Special.-31r. Gcorgt
)!a:'ning wias pzainfu'l!y' hurt on Gba.
steet. near the ('!icn of Commci'c
avenue wh'len he attempted to boar'
ni electrie ru. M1r. MIanning cvi
dent ly thought the ear wou1ld stot
for hi m at. lie c"orner but this it di(
not d1o and wxhile' it w'as going at:
lively tate he attemcipted to board'i it
As a resitlt lie waS throw 'n and dr:ag
ed some dmita nce. (On:e (of his shiou!
derts wvas dislocated and he vwas other
|8UTHERN : f
70PICS OF 1N TI.REST TO THE PL ANT1
What an Acre of Ground Does.
A correzpondent of the Progres
ive Farmer gives an interesting ac
ount of what one man has done with
ne acre of land. We certainly agr~e
with the writer that the man had
more to do with the remarkable
uccess recorded than did either
eed, fertilizer, or soil.
Visitors to the Charleston Expo
ition interested in agriculture were
ttracted by a large picture on exhi
ition in the North Caroline section.
his picture represented an old Con
ederate soldier with his wife and
wo daughters in their garden gather
ng peas. The picture was made
rom a photograph of Mr. Lewis
arady's "Unique Truck Garden" in
inst'n, N. C.
A certain seed house has been
widely advertising this garden as a
specimen of what can be done when
.heir seed are used. A fertilizer
:ompany h-: been announcing that
.hc results attained by Mr. Grady
were due to their fertilizers. The
Department of Agriculture of North
Carolina assures all visitors to the
State Museum that the remarkable
yield of vegetables from Mr. Grady's
garden is clearly due to the soil of
Eastern North Carolina. Some of
us who have watched the old man's
methods of cultivation have gotten
hold of the idea that the man has
more to do with it than either of the
above.
Mr. Grady's garden occupies just
an acre within the corporate limits
of Kinston. From the windows of
the train on the A. and N. C. Rail
road his garden may be seen about
a hundred yards to the north of the
railway track, perhaps four yards
east of the depot. There is nothing
unusual about the soil. The fertiliz
er used is a brand commonly used by
the truck growers in this section.
After preparing the land In early
spring, about the only tool used by
Mr. Grady are an ordinary hoe and
a smaller hoe of his own manufac
ture made from a buggy spring bent
at a right angle and bolted to a hick
ory hoe helve.
Mr. Grady toId me recently that he
had something in his garden to sell
every day in the year. He believes
in intensive cultivation. He rents
the acre of ground, paying g20 per
year rent, and nearly every year
raises radishes enough in odd cor
ners. to pay the rent. One year he
sold $2A20' worth of radishes, be
sides having enough for his family
and sending quite a number of bunch
s to his friends. He has a great di
ersity of crops.. This year he plant
d his peas ,Tanuary 2d, and will eon
tinue to plant something up' to. next
January.. Throughout the season as
e' removes one vegetable irom the
garden he immediately plants anoth
er in its place.. He grows ir his gar
'e radishes,. turnips, mustard, gar
den- peas, beans, corn, okra,. lima
beans, kale and collards. 1Te keeps
hi- ground highly fertlitized and
works it thorou-ghly.
D'uring the past three years his
ncome from this one acre has been
a~s. follows: $147.70',. $183.50,.
51st.05.
This strikes me as being fairly
c,d showing- for an old crippled
Confederate soldier working for a
few hours inr the morning on one
acre of land.. He has produced
anough vegetable to supply a family
f- five and the'n sell in three years
$412.25 worth.
Corn, Alfalfa and Live Stock.
On a recent visit south we noted
some important agricultural changes
taking place in Mississippi, Louisiana
and other southern States. The long
adherence to the one staple crop,. eot
ton, is giving way to live stock and
corn growing. Corn does not. yield
o many bushels per acre south as in
our central and northern States,. but
this is made up. In the luxuriant
growth of alfalfa,. so rich in nftrogen
and essential in live stock growing
and the dairy industry, making a bal
anced ration -with corn both for beet
cows and dairy cows. .With . four
good crops of alfalfa, which seems to
flourish south, even with. -less corn
per' acrc, will about equal the live
stock productions of tihe centrali
States. Actual tests of this in Mvissis'
sippi and other southerD States have
demonstrated this fact,. as here and
there cattle-growing is made pro~t
able. On a well balanced ration of
corn and alfalfa in Mrississippi heel
cattle, grade Herefords and Short
horns, on actual feeding tests have
been made to gain in periods o1
eighty and 120 day's feeding, 2.80 to
2.98 pounds per day on an average
and in the case of some finely bred
H-erefeds in ninety days' feeding
three pounds gain per day was maade
wit1 these foods.
This chrange which is siewly taking
ple from the exclusive eetton grow
News N~otes.
Prsident Peabody, of the Mutual
Life PIsurance Company, issued a let
t~r to the policy holders defending
th presenlt manIagemeut and asking
for -:.;es. the letter being~ a reply to
the xternational policy holders' c
uittec statement.
The Catholie Education AssociatioI
bean its third annual session at
Clevad, Ohio.
B. J1. Ewiu'~ testifid in the Hargis
?allahanu murder case that ex-Judg
Hargis had asked him to murder At
torney J. B. Mareum.
Complete fusion was affected it
Pennsvania between the Loncob
Republicans and the Democrats.
United States Senator Crane wa:
married in Manchester. Mass., to Mis
Joshepine Porter Broadman.
The North Carolina Republical
Con'ention elected ex-Judge Spene
B. Adams chairman of the State com
A RM : 0 TES.
R, STOCKMAN AND TRUC'( GOM*ER
ing to live stock, both in beef and
dairying, means a great deal to the
cotton growing States in moreqays
than one.
1. By such diversified husbandry
corn can be produced in the cotton
growing States at a saving of fifty
cents a bushel for corn when shipped
from the North, means so much less
cost per pound in growing cotton,
which, of course, must always be a
leading crop, there, and will enable
that section to grow cotton at six or
seven cents a pound more profitably
than it does now at ten and twelve
cents.
2. Cattle and swine growing will
afford ample consumption of the sur
plus corn and alfalfa, which
shown to be so valuable in the li
stock industry.
Southern - planters and farmer
have these very plain propositio
before them, not in theories, but
actual tests nlere and there in t
States, and they cannot too s:>,
make them generally available i
their own sure and certain prosperi
ty. They mean a great deal no
only for agriculture but business
generally for the New South. The
State experiment station, in LGuisi
ana, Tennessee and other of .these
States are doing a splendid work
along these lines, and intelligent
pratcical planters and farmers are
supplementing their work in feedi.ng
live stock as stated.-Indiana FaW
er.
Fertilizers Factors For Conversion.
To convert:
Ammonia into nitrogen, multi
ply by........ ........ 0.824
Ammonia into protein, by. ... 5.15
Nitrogen Into ammonia, mul
tiply by .............. 214
Nitrate of soda Into nitrogen,
multiply by.. .... .... ..16.47
Nitrogen into protein by..... 6.25
Bone phosphate. into phosphor
ic acid, multiplied by...... 0.459
Phosphoric acid into bone pot
ash, multiply by.... - 2.1
urate of potash into actual
potash, multiply by . .--. 0.6
Actual potash into murate pot
ash, multiply by..... .... 1.583
Sulphate, of potash into actual %
potash, multiply by.... ... .541
Actual potash into sulphate of
potash, multiply bY. - - - -S I
For instance,. you buy ninety-five;
per cent. of nitrate of soda and want
to know how much nitrogen in it,
multiply .ninety-five per cent. by
16A7 and you will get 15.65. per cent.
nitrogen;- you. want to knoV how
much ammonia this. nitrogen is equiv
alent to, then multiply 15-.65 per
cent. by 1..214 and you get- 18.99 per
cent., the equivalent 'in ammonia.
Florida Experiment Station Bnf1etin.
THEI CEfNQUAP[N~
The chinqulaPin, or dwarf chestnut,
is not ias widely distributed. as the
chestnu t~~' ee~~
ih in habit.. Usually it branches o1"
near the ground, and on average, the
trunk does, not grow larger thani eight.
or ten inches. I have seen ene or two
trees considerably larger. The leaf
is, in shape nearly like the chest
nut, but very much smaller. In Its
wild state- the chinquapin prefers
rather poor, sandy land, but it wilt
grow on a variety of soils. The bur~s
are small and contain only one nut
each. The ripening season is about
one month earlier than the native
chesnut.. The nuts fail to the ground
in the fall, and If not disturbed, they
send a root into the ground befoe
winter.. -They .1ie this way until th
next spring, and sprout uP e.
next season and make considerabl
growth. The trees begin to bear
early. I have seen bushes not more
than three feet high full of- matured
nuts.. The trees thrive In open
ground. They are often left along the
roadside or on rough, rocky ground,
and are a delight to children-A. 3.
Legg, Albion, W. Va.
BIRDS TO ENCOURAGE.
The birds: that are known to eat
the boll weerfl deserve to be encoUr
aged withim the cotton belt. To be 1
rightly encouraged they ought to be'
well known. The subjlect is a nese
one, and the list of sceh birds can
be enlarged as the information im
reases. Already known as answern
to this view are the Carolina warens
the titrk, the tomtit. western mead'
w lark. Florida meadow lark, coza'
mcn phoebe, red wiag blackbird. white
throated sparrow,. western Savannah
sparrow, brown thrasher, Texas bob
white, brewer blackbird, cowgbrd,
iakdaw, mocking bird, butcherbird.
kldeer. All these have bad thel
ssomachs examined and found to
friends. They deserve to be prote
e d and helped.
Items of Interest.
Complaints were filed in
carging former officers of the M
company with extravagance and
management in the suits to re
It is a good deal better to ho
ccild than to have to hold mee
to save wandering mcen.
Ex-hroes can't understan
he the world has such a poor m
Insanity is said to be akin to love
-but a man in love noesn't care of
he is crazy.
A man can make a good dcal
money in stocks by being careful n
to have anything to do with them.
If a woman is in love with a ma
shhealways gelieves what he sa
wwen she says she doesn't.
The world will not be saved by at
uguents about God in heaven, with
ouutthe evidence of a God in th
hert